Rain­bow­light Yoga style? It’s fun. It’s not demand­ing or intim­i­dat­ing. It’s not pre­cise and it’s not hot! The best way to describe Rain­bow­light Yoga is flow. It’s a com­mu­nity open and acces­si­ble to every­one. The classes are tai­lored to the stu­dents present. Rain­bow­light Yoga flows and is spir­i­tual and inspir­ing, rooted in ancient Indian and Tibetan Bud­dhist roots. Rain­bow­light Yoga is organic and holis­tic. Sounds like food, but maybe there’s some­thing to that. Rain­bow­light Yoga is food for the body, mind and spirit.

In yoga terms, we aim to serve the five koshas– anna­maya, prana­maya, manomaya, vij­nana­maya, anan­damaya– phys­i­cal body, energy body, con­scious­ness body, wis­dom body and the bliss body. When your yoga prac­tice moves from reach­ing one kosha to the next and you unite com­pas­sion with the wis­dom under­stand­ing the empti­ness and inter­de­pen­dence of all things, the bliss body is reached — the rain­bow body. That’s Rain­bow­light Yoga. So when are you com­ing?

Classes are free/​by dona­tion. Sug­gested dona­tion is £5. No one is turned away from lack of funds.

Yoga Classes in Edinburgh

Come along to Rain­bow­light Yoga’s free com­mu­nity classes in our liv­ing room/​yoga stu­dio. We’re a friendly easy going group. The style is flow yoga. It is fun and ener­giz­ing. Open to begin­ners and advanced stu­dents. You can always mod­ify a posi­tion to make it eas­ier or more chal­leng­ing and you will be guided all the way. Classes are free or by dona­tion. Sug­gested dona­tion is £5 but no one will be turned away from lack of funds. All lev­els welcome!

Spaces are lim­ited so please con­tact Sun­shine to reserve a spot text This email address is being pro­tected from spam­bots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it. mobile: 0795– 573‑4321

All yoga and pilates classes are held at 90⁄5 Con­sti­tu­tion Street cor­ner Queen Char­lotte St. Look for a green door oppo­site Hide­Out Café (door­bell: ROSS) Please note this is a top floor with no lift or wheel­chair access but great for warm­ing up. Take Bus no. 16 from city centre.

Namaste! See you soon.

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Tibetan Bud­dhism and Med­i­ta­tion Classes in Edinburgh

These are small, friendly, infor­mal classes. We start off with a short guided med­i­ta­tion fol­lowed by an expla­na­tion of the med­i­ta­tion. We intro­duce the topic of the evening where ques­tions are encour­aged. To end, we sit again for another short meditation.

Sun­shine teaches from the view of Tibetan Bud­dhism Gel­ugpa tra­di­tion. This is the holy lin­eage of Je Tsongkhapa and His Holi­ness the 14th Dalai Lama. Sun­shine has com­pleted the Asian Clas­sics Insti­tute (ACI) for­mal study courses under the super­vi­sion of Her Holy Lama Ven­er­a­ble Lob­sang Chun­zom who is a fully ordained Bud­dhist Nun. The ACI courses cover the same basic core of infor­ma­tion that a Geshe (Doc­tor of The­ol­ogy) learns at a Tibetan monastery. These include Per­fec­tion of Wis­dom (Pra­jna Paramita), Mid­dle Way (Mad­hyamika), Higher Knowl­edge (Abhid­harma), Logic and Per­cep­tual The­ory (Pra­mana), Vowed Moral­ity (Vinaya) and Steps of the Path to Enlight­en­ment (Lam-​Rim). The ACI courses were devel­oped by Geshe Michael Roach, one of the first West­ern­ers to com­plete a geshe degree in a Tibetan Monastery (Sera Mey).

Upcom­ing in September…

The Three Prin­ci­pal Aspects of the Path by Je Tsongkhapa The 6 Per­fec­tions and the Bod­dhisattva Way of Life